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Fishes Quotes - Page 4

The fish is the star of the plate.

"'It's Not Me, It's the Oven'". Interview with Eve Gleichman, www.esquire.com. August 12, 2010.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

"Conan O'Brien Endorses Finnish President". January 15, 2006.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1098, BookCaps Study Guides

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.244, Macmillan

Fish cannot carry guns.

Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (song) (1927)

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

Ivan Turgenev (2012). “First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man”, p.48, Courier Corporation

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

All fish are not caught with flies

John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.261, Manchester University Press

The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

John Heywood, Julian Sharman (1972). “The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the "Proverbes" of that Author Printed 1546”

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.231, Random House